Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun] [prep] [noun] later " in BNC.
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| 1 | These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day . |
| 2 | They must have seen his lights for they were at the door , and a couple of minutes later he was in their brightly-lit living-room standing by a blazing fire and being asked what he would drink . |
| 3 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |
| 4 | And a couple of minutes later , after Garry Haylock released Alan Dornan down the right , the latter 's cross was met by Johnston at the near post . |
| 5 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 6 | We got drunk , had a good time and a couple of days later I had to make a decision . |
| 7 | But something kept nagging in my mind , and a couple of days later I sent my secretary to Upper Thames Street to get the files of our earlier correspondence with him , and the original specimen of his signature kept by the bank . |
| 8 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 9 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 10 | Maybe you hear the gas bottle explode a couple of minutes and a couple of miles later , when you 're on the loch-side road heading away , but it 's blowing quite hard by then and you 're not sure . |
| 11 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 12 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 13 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 14 | Sean Curtis , TSB Head of Marketing , states : ‘ We had entered into negotiations with Mark McCormack 's IMG company in February of this year and a couple of months later everything was finalised . |
| 15 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 16 | For example , among hermaphroditic reef fish , some species begin life as females and a proportion of individuals later become males ( protogyny ) ( Warner , Robertson & Leigh , 1975 ; Robertson & Hoffman , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | One shoulder operation and a season of water-treading later , this determined , self-assured competitor is once again strutting his stuff to destructive effect ; quite why he was overlooked for the Oval Test escapes me . |
| 18 | She began to walk forward rapidly , but a couple of minutes later she came to an abrupt stop . |